Lets make 50 Cent retire!

American rapper 50 Cent has threatened to stop releasing solo material if his next album fails to outsell a new CD by rival star Kanye West.

Surely i don’t need to say anything more…
Go buy Kanye’s album!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3983728494&pwstdfy=81dba4a607f072066715b13318fc1f83

Brand confusion

Brands brands brands, they are everywhere, we wear them, read them and all sorts. We undertstand certain brands are luxurious and certain are poor, some people will go to extreme measures to get their hands on the latest product eg. iphone or playstation.

But i wonder…
Have we been spun? Do the rest of world embrace brands like us?

I spent some time on the sub-continent earlier in the year, the mish mash of brands was quite amazing, there were the cutomary brands like coke, pepsi, toyota etc… but then there were some funny things going on with brands!
The car pictured is a Toyota Starlet, i dont remeber Toyota making an R-Type Starlet? Can just hear honda gettin onto their lawyers!

I’m not sure what it is, it is not a blatant rip off, but there is a hell a lot of confusion, so i’m thinking the whole media-branding-machine hasn’t quite inflitrated the whole world just yet. Yet they still clearly have some idea of what is percieved as nice and not-nice. I also think the people i came accross did not have english as their first language, so maybe that is a factor too? There was another popular brand i came accross over there, it was called ‘Prado’- another interesting one, like i said above, they DO understand what is good and not, so it seems to me that they came up with the ULTIMATE luxury brand by chucking 2 international luxury brands together – genius. (Rado and Prada, for those of you who live in a broadband-ready brand-free-cave.)

Well anyways i found the 2 links below, they visualise another world of brands…(from china mostly)
I’m not sure if it’s an attempt to blatantly rip off big name brands, or whether it is a secret homage…either way its fishy and i wouldn’t buy any of it!
Doh! i’ve been spun!

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technology/4d452e8569544110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
http://www.cartype.com/page.cfm?id=1497

Anyways…discuss…

Trees in the City

I’ve been meaning to put this up for ages.
I designed this book of poetry back in the spring, here’s just a few sample pages.
This was a v simple and elegant typographic solution.

Amar

buy it at amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trees-City-Action-Climate-Change/dp/095561130X

Awesome link

check out the link below, its all about images that lie. or rather photographers/re-touchers who make images lie. there some really good examples on there, some more contreversial than others.

Enjoy

http://news.com.com/2300-1026-6033210.html